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Tens of thousands knocked offline after software failure at Musk’s Starlink
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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I have to support a remote client that uses Starlink. It's a nightmare. We can deal with slow connections, we can deal with bad ping, but with Starlink what we get is the entire connection dropping every minute or so, and coming back up a short while later. It's unbelievably bad.
"More satellites!"
Maybe the overall idea isn't a great one.
My money is on Kessler Syndrome in less than 20 years.
Good news is that it won't be from Starlink unless they decide to start moving them higher. LEO has atmospheric drag that slowly decays orbits that aren't actively maintained.